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El espía es peligroso, ¡no nos traiciones!

El espía es peligroso, ¡no nos traiciones!
The spy is dangerous, do not betray us!
From Lesson 135:Pronouns with negative commands (no me lo des)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El espía es peligroso, ¡no nos traiciones!

ser
to be
no
no, not
peligroso
dangerous
nos
to us
el espía
the spy
traicionar
to betray

Questions & Answers about El espía es peligroso, ¡no nos traiciones!

Why does nos come before the verb in no nos traiciones?
Because this is a negative command. With negative commands (telling someone not to do something), object pronouns like nos always go directly between no and the verb. If it were a positive command like 'Betray us!', the pronoun would attach to the very end of the verb instead: ¡traiciónanos!
Why is the verb conjugated as traiciones if traicionar is an '-ar' verb?
When giving a negative command to tú (informal 'you'), Spanish swaps the verb's usual vowel ending. For -ar verbs like traicionar, the regular -as ending changes to -es. That is why we say no traiciones instead of no traicionas.
Espía ends in an 'a', so why does it use el?
Espía is a noun that uses the exact same spelling for both men and women. To show the person's gender, you just change the article. El espía is a male spy, and la espía is a female spy. Since this spy is male, the adjective matches him and ends in 'o': peligroso.
Why use es instead of está for 'is dangerous'?
We use es (from the verb ser) because being dangerous is described here as a fundamental characteristic of this spy, not just a temporary mood or condition.

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